Hamburg cell

The Hamburg cell was a group of radical Islamists based in Hamburg, Germany that took part in the planning and execution of 9/11; three of its leaders, Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, and Marwan al-Shehhi would be hijacker-pilots in the 11 September 2001 suicide attacks against the United States. The cell also included Said Bahaji, Zakariya Essabar, Mounir el-Motassadeq, and Abdelghani Mzoudi. Members of the cell were almost all Sunni Muslim students studying in Germany, and they were fluent in English, educated, accustomed to the Western lifestyle, capable pilots, and radical Islamists. They contacted al-Qaeda through Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and they worshipped together at the al-Quds Mosque. Motivated by the hatred of the godless society that they saw the modern world as portraying, they decided to sacrifice their lives to achieve a world dominated by Salafism and extreme Islam. The Hamburg cell's surviving members were rounded up after the attacks and arrested, with many being sent to Guantanamo Bay.